Re: Strange bahaviour - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: Strange bahaviour
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Msg-id 20020812140030.GF16986@credativ.de
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In response to Re: Strange bahaviour  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:40:12AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> The NULL is perfectly correct: that's the initial value of the plpgsql
> variable.  The above is essentially the same as saying
>     login := login;
> It is not "incorrect".

That's exactly what I thought is the reason. I just wonder if there's a
way to make this kind of stuff more obvious for instance by using :login
for the variable as with embedded SQL. IMO the actual behaviour, while
of course correct, is a little bit confusing.

Michael
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